Commentary: Grieving over Mom: No, she's not in a 'better place'
by Stephen J. Lyons, Chicago Tribune
May 10, 2019
3 minutes
Two days before my mother died, she was incontinent, incoherent and, with the exception of some humming, incommunicado. Dementia had swept away her ability to swallow food or water, and danger of asphyxiation was real. Nurses swabbed her dry lips with a kind of wet sponge lollipop. Mom would suck on it for all it was worth. The nurses laughed when Mom would not let go of the sponge.
I sat with Mom alone, holding the hand that once held mine; the same
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